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THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF<br/>
<span class=large>JAMES</span>
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CHAPTER 4
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Wars are born of lusts—The friends of the world are the enemies of God—Sin is failure to walk in the light we have received.
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From</span> whence <i>come</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG War.">wars</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">fightings</a> among you?  <i>come they</i> not hence, <i>even</i> of your <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/1c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR pleasures, gratifications, passions.">lusts</a> that war in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Ye <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prayer.">ask</a>, and receive not, because ye <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 10: 5 (4-6).">ask</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/3c" mark="c" type="Q" title="GR wickedly, wrongly; Rom. 8: 26 (26-27); D&C 46: 30 (28-30); D&C 88: 65 (64-65).">amiss</a>, that ye may <sup>d</sup><a href="james/4/3d" mark="d" type="Q" title="GR waste, expend; D&C 46: 9.">consume</a> <i>it</i> upon your <sup>e</sup><a href="james/4/3e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Lust.">lusts</a>.
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Ye <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Whoredom.">adulterers</a> and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG World; TG Worldliness.">world</a> is <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Opposition.">enmity</a> with God?  whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the <sup>d</sup><a href="james/4/4d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Enemies.">enemy</a> of God.
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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Envy.">envy</a>?
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But he giveth more <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a>.  Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pride.">proud</a>, but giveth grace unto the <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Poor in Spirit.">humble</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reconciliation; TG Submissiveness.">Submit</a> yourselves therefore to God.  <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Abstinence; TG Self-mastery.">Resist</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Devil.">devil</a>, and he will flee from you.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Presence of.">Draw</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 69: 18; D&C 88: 63.">nigh</a> to God, and he will draw nigh to you.  <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/8c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Repentance.">Cleanse</a> <i>your</i> hands, <i>ye</i> sinners; and <sup>d</sup><a href="james/4/8d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Purification; TG Purity.">purify</a> <i>your</i> hearts, <i>ye</i> double minded.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR Endure hardship, Suffer harassment.">Be</a> afflicted, and mourn, and <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 22: 12; Joel 2: 17; 2 Cor. 7: 10.">weep</a>: let your laughter be turned to <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">mourning</a>, and <i>your</i> joy to heaviness.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Contrite Heart; TG Humility.">Humble</a> yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Gossip.">Speak</a> not evil one of another, brethren.  He that speaketh evil of <i>his</i> brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Citizenship.">law</a>, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 8: 20 (19-20).">judgest</a> another?
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 27: 1.">morrow</a> we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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Whereas ye know not what <i>shall be</i> on the morrow.  For what <i>is</i> your life?  It is even a <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 7: 31 (29-31); Jacob 7: 26.">vapour</a>, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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For that ye <i>ought</i> to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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But now ye rejoice in your <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Boasting.">boastings</a>: all such rejoicing is evil.
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Therefore to him that <sup>a</sup><a href="james/4/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 12: 47; 2 Ne. 9: 25 (25-27).">knoweth</a> to do good, and <sup>b</sup><a href="james/4/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Disobedience; TG Good Works; TG Obedience.">doeth</a> <i>it</i> not, to him it is <sup>c</sup><a href="james/4/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sin</a>.
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